[pkg-php-pear] Bug#759972: php-xml-serializer: FTBFS: tests failed

[Antonio Ospite]

Package: php-xml-serializer
Version: 0.20.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #759972

Dear Maintainer,

about the original failure reporded by Lucas (sometimes entities in
attributes get escaped twice), I am trying to get in touch with the
upstream author, see the last comment on
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=15602

About the 6 failures observed by Prach, they may be caused by a change
in how PHPUnit passes the include path, as the errors are basically:

  Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required
  'XML/Unserializer.php'
  (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in - on line 2'


By changing the way the test are run, i.e.:

  diff --git a/debian/tests_run b/debian/tests_run
  index 5c04a0d..ef007fa 100755
  --- a/debian/tests_run
  +++ b/debian/tests_run
  @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
   #!/bin/sh

   set -e

   pear_pkg=`ls | grep XML_Serializer`

   cd ${pear_pkg}
  -PKG_ROOT=`pwd`
  -cd tests
  -
  -phpunit -d include_path=".:/usr/share/php:${PKG_ROOT}" AllTests.php
  +phpunit tests/AllTests.php


the tests _run_ correctly, however they would still fail because
deprecated syntax warnings pollute the output.

I have fixes for the deprecation warnings but I am waiting for the
upstream to comment on the double escape issue.

I'll report back whan I have more info.

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-rc7-ao2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages php-xml-serializer depends on:
ii  php-pear        1:1.10.1+submodules+notgz-6
ii  php-xml-parser  1.3.6-1

php-xml-serializer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages php-xml-serializer suggests:
ii  php5-cli  5.6.19+dfsg-2

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Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it

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